Subject: Re: Dawn
Author: Rich Corinthian Leather
Date: 27 Apr
Ref:

David Johnston wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:11:38 -0400, "80 Knight" <nospam@nospam.com>
> wrote:
>
>> "David Johnston" <david@block.net> wrote in message
>> news:fip1141nrsvum7ltmfi8n9kcqmd439hgvo@4ax.com...
>>> On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:19:36 -0700 (PDT), "trigonometry1972@gmail.com
>>> |" <trigonometry1972@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Apr 24, 9:18 am, David Johnston <da...@block.net> wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:40:01 -0700, Tim Bruening
>>>>>
>>>>> <tsbru...@pop.dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
>>>>>> In this episode, Trip is stranded on a moon with an alien named Zorgon.
>>>>>> It gets up to 170 Centigrade on that moon in the day, so Trip and
>>>>>> Zorgon
>>>>>> must get themselves rescued before they bake. Even worse, the alien
>>>>>> doesn't sweat, so he's more vulnerable to the heat than Trip. When Trip
>>>>>> establishes contact with Voyager, why doesn't he ask Voyager to beam
>>>>>> down a lot of water containers?
>>>>> Giving Enterprise a transporter at all was a mistake.
>>>> They should have dropped the transporters, I agree.
>>>> And they should have had shields
>>> They did have shields. Worked exactly like the ones in the rest of
>>> Star Trek. Just called them by another name.
>> The NX-01 had "hull plating", not shields.
>>
>
> How was hull plating different from shields?

Perhaps the hull plating didn't extend much, if at all, beyond the hull
proper. The plating may simply reinforce the tensile strength of the
hull to repel or minimize the impact of energy weapons.

Still, the NX-01 would need navigational shielding to protect the ship
from microscopic impacts while traveling at high impulse or warp speeds!

RCL


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